Speaking on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe co-founder John Collison, released on 29 October 2026, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman called it "quite terrible" to distribute scarce DRAM across personal computers where, he says, it is used only occasionally, arguing that keeping memory more fully occupied in the cloud would make better use of limited supplies. Around 29 minutes into the interview, while discussing local inference—running an AI model on a user's own hardware—Altman questioned the assumption that running open-source models on personal computers would eliminate the need for infrastructure inside data centres, saying that from a global allocation perspective it is "quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer," describing that memory as being used "5% of the time," and adding that "you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment." The remarks addressed resource allocation during a supply shortage; he did not propose taking memory from existing PCs or restricting personal computer ownership. Asked why high prices for memory and other computing components were not drawing more suppliers, Altman attributed memory manufacturers' caution to their experience of repeated booms and busts, describing a business in which substantial investment in production facilities had not consistently produced attractive returns.